On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:44:34PM +0000, Ian Atkin wrote: > Hi, > > Don't know if this is the right place to ask about USB 3 support and legacy > kernels, so apologies in advance if it is not. I have an ageing Linux > environment based on the OpenSuse 2.6.27.7 kernel. This environment is an OEM > environment which we occasionally have to back-fill support into (new AHCI > drivers for example[1]) to get new hardware supported. > > The Intel xhCI (USB3) controller problem has now hit us with this > environment, and I'm unsure whether support can be added for this old kernel > is going to be possible. Upgrading the kernel will also take us out of OEM > support. > > Does anyone have any pointers on what we can do here? If a kernel upgrade is > the only way to go, resulting in us falling out of OEM support, then so be > it. But before going down that route, I'd thought I'd ask...
It's going to be pretty hard to port all 1000+ xHCI patches to the 2.6.27 kernel. I had to touch parts of the USB core as well as adding the drivers, so can't just take the xHCI driver files alone. I would strongly recommend you just upgrade your kernel. Sarah Sharp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
